civil rights workers

An introduction to Nina Simone, a jazz legend and civil-rights activist.

Presents a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning civil rights leader who sought nonviolent means to end racial discrimination.

Discusses the life of Rosa Parks, focusing on her work in the fight for Civil Rights in America.

Color illustrations and simple questions introduce the life of civil rights activist Rosa Parks.

Color illustrations and simple questions introduce the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Describes the life and work of civil rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer.

A biography of Rosa Parks that provides background information on her involvement in the civil rights movement, discussing her arrest for failing to give up her seat on a bus, which started the Montgomery bus boycott.

Looks at the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Chronicles the life and career of political activist Malcom X.

Chronicles the events surrounding the Freedom Riders who were a group of civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States, beginning in 1961, to protest segregation in the southern states.